Morris Keesan: ”CID Ewww?”
Cidu Bill on Aug 14th 2010
And maybe a little Arlo -Bill Bickel
Google confirmed for me that backscatter X-ray is the controversial new machine that lets airport security see through people’s clothes [geezer alert: how many readers immediately think of those “x-ray glasses” that used to be advertised in the backs of comic books], but are there really lots of men who want airport security drones to see them with erections?
Filed in Arlo Page, Bill Bickel, CIDU, Ewww, airports, comic strips, comics, humor, xkcd | 17 responses so far
Tim Aug 14th 2010 at 09:19 pm 1
How about the alternative - how many men would want to be seen as lacking in the bedroom department?
BroBoCop Aug 14th 2010 at 09:40 pm 2
It’s a LOL for me. Revenge against the presence of the machine. “Take THIS, you privacy violators, you!”
George P Aug 14th 2010 at 09:53 pm 3
It might have been funnier with Smiling Bob selling Enzyte.
RyanE Aug 14th 2010 at 10:55 pm 4
I think the men just want to have a respectable showing in the booth.
Kamino Neko Aug 14th 2010 at 11:16 pm 5
It’s screwing with the TSA guys without doing anything that could get you arrested.
Lola Aug 14th 2010 at 11:43 pm 6
Yeah, you wouldn’t want to be suffering from any shrinkage when a possible permanent record of your assets is being made. A hot babe working at the screen would have added a layer.
chuckers Aug 14th 2010 at 11:44 pm 7
“without doing anything that could get you arrested.”
Other than drug dealing….
Arthur Aug 15th 2010 at 12:07 am 8
It may have been based on this incident:
http://consumerist.com/2010/05/do-not-mock-your-fellow-tsa-agents-tiny-penis-while-testing-full-body-scanners.html
(That should end with HTML. I’m not sure the copy-and-paste worked quite right.)
Bruce Aug 15th 2010 at 01:15 am 9
The important point is that “black-hat guy” is the one distributing the Viagra. He’s xkcd’s agent of chaos (for lack of a better word); a self-described “classhole”, he’s the sort of person who’d put up his own traffic signs to redirect traffic to a lonely road that he’d implanted with spikes. He’s distributing Viagra more to enjoy the TSA guard’s discomfort than for anything else.
Steffen Aug 15th 2010 at 02:12 am 10
In general men do not like viewing other men’s erections. They also don’t like having public erections, but it appears in this case they feel it’s worth it to get revenge over the backscatter machines.
Don’t forget the meta-text: “Don’t need any, thanks. I have a backscattering fetish.”
Proginoskes Aug 15th 2010 at 04:06 am 11
The meta-text is what allowed me to figure out what was going on. (A guy with a backscattering fetish would be turned on by the machine.)
I figured this comic would show up at CIDU when I first saw it.
Sal Aug 15th 2010 at 11:23 am 12
geezer alert! geezer alert! bing bing bing.
Lola Aug 15th 2010 at 11:46 am 13
If there was a sequel to this it would reveal a spike of new members in the mile high club.
Woodrowfan Aug 15th 2010 at 02:46 pm 14
a coupe years a go there was a news story about some junior high boys that took some Viagra that one of them stole from their Dad. I remember the police spokesmen saying something like “it was easy to find the young men that took it.”
Danny Boy (London Derriere) Aug 15th 2010 at 04:12 pm 15
From my paranoid high-school years: Our dress code required boys to have their shirts tucked in. Retrospectively I’m sure that was just part of a general concept of neatness. (Though then you’d think horizontally-cut non-dangly shirttails could be worn out.) But at the time I suspected it was a way to enforce erection monitoring.
Paperboy Mar 2nd 2011 at 06:16 pm 16
Wait; I read it as: “Oh God… [he’s got a bomb]!!” But I guess when you DON”T DRAW FACES there can be various interpretations.
Matthew Mar 2nd 2011 at 08:05 pm 17
A little Arlo, Bill? I think that the men are looking for a bigger Arlo than that.